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Fossil fuels? Plastic? President Trump says more is better

US President Donald Trump tells workers building a new Shell petrochemical facility that America is now the world's top energy producer

President Donald Trump has seen the future and it is oil. And plastic.

Where most environmental scientists and most US allies fear that overuse of fossil fuels is driving the planet into crisis, the US president spies only opportunity.

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